The weapons and tradition

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Below this text is a link to famous traditional German songs from the 17th. century. There is a series of portraits of that time art, and here I must mention, that I don't have copyrights for that video, but you might push the link and watch it by self. The film consists the interesting paintings from that period, and as you might seem, those paintings consist the introductions, how the weapons should handle, and of course the warnings and codes, what people who fought in 30-years war should afraid.


The rifles in those paintings seems normal weapons, but they are made by extremely strong materials, what means that they were so-called "hand cannons".  Those extremely powerful flintlock muskets could penetrate walls of stone houses, and that made them extremely dangerous.  Also, the crossbow was loaded with windlass, and that tells something, how powerful those weapons were. The strong bow would give extremely high power for arrows, what would send to the targets.


Also, there are paintings of the men, who use heavy swords. Those extremely long swords were so devastating, that they could cut the horse in two pieces. But in the 30-years war, those swords were also equipped with rifles, what would make them more powerful. The back of the sword was sometimes equipped with the small pistol, what could be used when the blade is turned upwards, and the opponent was not always noticed the pistol.


There are stories of the "singing swords", what was equipped with the instrument, what keeps the sound, what caused pain. The blade has targeted the sound and the target was screaming with pain. After that, the inventor named Alessandro Volta created the sword where was the Volta's statue in the band. That sword gave electric shocks to the other persons if Volta used that sword against other people.


There were, of course, the "Black magic", that meant that the swords could load with electricity, what was created by using static electricity. In fact in the modern military sometimes have been tested the catapults and even the crossbows, what are equipped with dynamos. The fast rotating dynamos can store the high voltage electricity for the arrows, and that could make them excellent electromagnetic weapons, what could damage the electronic equipment.


Those arrows would not deliver their electricity, because the wooden structure would be a good electric insulator. And during the 30-years war, the crossbows were equipped with muskets, because that gave the shooter the change for two fast shots.   Also sometimes recon troops have damaged the electric high voltage lines by shooting arrows, where was connected the electric wires. When the wires have touched the cables, that can cause damages to the power circuits.


Modern people have given also some new names for the paintings. In the 4:41 the painting was renamed as the "MAV attack". But the purpose is only to tell, that people are talking everything, what those men have done. And picture what is at the 3:38 is renamed as "Knight gets equipment from the fourth dimension". The meaning of that picture is only the remember that the men could have secret orders for some situations. There are many interesting details in the film, what is in the link, what is below the text. The meaning of the cloud is, of course, bad news. And in some pictures, the meaning is the scare the people, that somebody would see, what people are doing, and if those men were drunk, they were killed very easily.


https://youtu.be/D1BMiVKzKp0

Thinking about imagination

Mont-Sainte Victoire
Paul Chèzanne c.1895
(Picture 1)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Imagination is a tool for artists, who is painter, writer or does this person make any kind of form of art. Artist can make real portraits of something, but this person can also make synthetic art, what means to make images from mind to visible to other people. Imagination is a simulation of the thing, what will be forming on the canvas or paper. Synthetic simulation means that artist compies images from the mind to the platform. In the world of ar the picture what the artist copies to paper are an impression or thesis about things, what the artist thinks and feels. The ability to copy the image from mind to paper makes the artist, and some artists are slower than other. When we are thinking about two famous painters, Pablo Picasso and Paul Cèzanne, we always hear that Chèzanne was the very slow painter, who painted one of his work ”Table, napkins and fruit” we always hear about the story how those vegetables rotten during the session. 

Somebody says that Chèzanne did not have technical skills to make those paintings, but I must sometimes disagree with that opinion. Chèzanne was the very sharp painter, and I think that the slow cycle of working might cause that this man was the perfectionist. Many painters are that kind of persons. Everything must be like the artist wants, and if there would be some differences between the thing, what the artist wants and what this person gets, the thing must be done again and again, until the result will satisfy the artist or master. The artist must investigate the things about the object for creating the perfect form, and to become a master, the artist must make many theses, what is like the road to the terminus. This is visible in many portraits, what Paul Chèzanne made about the Mont Saint Victoire mountain.  

As Picasso or some other artist sais, the art is like a bridge to their mind. This is the secret of the art. Many artists are some kind of weird persons, and they want to be different than others. When we are thinking about the life of Picasso and other famous artists, we must say that those persons made the choice, what might be very hard to explain to their families. Even today is sometimes very difficult to tell at home, that person wants to be an artist. Many people justify those persons because they were and are different than they are. And there are of course many persons, who think that there will be the cheap and effective way to handle those persons. That is the mental hospital, where people would change to ”normal” by the doctors and medicals. 

When we think about productivity and the people, who make creative work, we must notice, that many of those people have epilepsy, and this symptom might have the connection with the creative personality. When we are talking about mental hospitals as a community, we must understand that those institutes offer an environment, where the patient process together for acting like abnormal way. And in that environment, some artists were like effloresce and start to create their own way to show people their skills and wonderful thinking, what is captured in many paintings from the masters, who have lived centuries ago. Those people will transmit us, what kind of place was some mountain or village at the time, there were no photographs or videos. 

Sources 

Picture 1

https://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/paul-cezanne/mont-sainte-victoire-3.jpg

Two famous but strange paintings.

The  Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
John Martin c.1821
(Picture 1)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Here are two paintings what seems quite strange. At the above, the text is a painting by the John Martin, what is portraying the destruction of the Pompeii and Herculaneum (Picture 1) and in the middle of the text (Picture 2) is a portrait what is painted by Thomas Cole, and the name of this portrait is The Course of Empire Destruction. I used the same portrait in the text before, and suddenly I thought that there was something strange in that painting. 

The thing that feels very strange, is similar to both paintings, they seem to be painted like the observer or the painter would be in some kind of cave. So the question is why those cities or things that are trapped in those paintings happens in the room like the cave? I once saw the drawing on the surface of the planet Venus, and there were painted the "U"-shape horizon because the massive pressure would distort the way how the light travels in the atmosphere, and that would cause the effect when the observers will see, that the horizon would seem like curved as the shape of "U".

The course of the Empire Destruction
Thomas Cole 1836
(Picture 2)

But when we will return to those two paintings, I must say that the painting about the surface of Venus has been made when the massive pressure and poisonous atmosphere of that planet have been detected. Those paintings have been painted at the 19th. century, and I once thought that have they innovated the SciFi writer Isaac Asimov for the novel "The end of the eternity".

In the end of the novel, the main character was sitting with his family in the "time cave". That might mean that Asimov meant that the main character would sit in the cave and used the electric singularity to jump in the fourth dimension. This thing might be very interesting for considering, when we think, why those two painters have been painted their paintings like they were been in the cave. 

Sources:

Picture 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79

Picture 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)#/media/File:Cole_Thomas_The_Course_of_Empire_Destruction_1836.jpg